The Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum is proud to welcome award-winning author Rick Atkinson for a conversation and signing of the second volume of his acclaimed Revolutionary War Trilogy, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charlestown, 1777-1780. The moderator for the conversation is Robert Allison, Professor, author, and Chair of the History Dept. at Suffolk University.
Rick Atkinson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven previous works of history, including The Long Gray Line, the Liberation Trilogy (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light), and The British Are Coming, the first volume of the Revolution Trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism.
Copies of The Fate of the Day will be available for purchase at the event. The event also coincides with the new exhibit at the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum, Upon Such Ground: Massachusetts and the Birth of a Revolution, which examines the pivotal role Massachusetts played in our separation from Great Britain and the founding of a new republic.
